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- JULY 19, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. SIX MEN CONVICTED OF HOMICIDE PUT TO DEATH
six men were executed in the Chinese capital Beijing for murder and other crimes including robbery and rape, state media reported.
- JULY 19, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. COURTS WARNED OVER DEATH PENALTY CONVICTIONS
China, whose judicial system has been under scrutiny after a series of widely publicised wrongful convictions, asked its courts to think twice before handing down the death penalty.
- JULY 19, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN PUBLICLY HANGED FOR RAPING TEENAGER
Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, two men convicted for raping a teenage boy were hanged in public in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad
- JULY 19, 2005OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
OKLAHOMA, USA. PENNINGTON EXECUTED FOR 1991 MURDER
Michael Pennington, convicted of killing a store clerk during a 1991 robbery and blamed it on steroid use, was executed by lethal injection.
- JULY 19, 2005ArizonaDEATH PENALTY
a Maricopa County Superior Court jury brought back 5 death penalty verdicts...
a Maricopa County Superior Court jury brought back 5 death penalty verdicts...
- JULY 19, 2005BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
BANGLADESH. MAN TO DIE FOR KILLING HIS WIFE
Jalaluddin, 28, of Amtali , was condemned to death by a court in Pirojpur, for killing his newlywed wife.
- JULY 19, 2005JapanDEATH PENALTY
HIGH COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF MURDERS
the Tokyo High Court upheld a lower court ruling, which sentenced Toshiaki Kaga, a 44-year-old man, to death for murdering a woman and her daughter and stealing their money.
- JULY 18, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. MAN BEHEADED FOR MURDERING TEENAGER IN 54TH EXECUTION OF THE YEAR
Ali bin Ahmad bin Hashidi Shuhaythi, a Saudi man, was beheaded by the sword in the holy city of Mecca, for strangling to death a teenager, the Saudi interior ministry announced.
- JULY 18, 2005RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RF SHOULD RATIFY PROTOCOL ON DEATH PENALTY – MARGELOV
Russia should ratify the protocol on the death penalty, Chairman of the Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Mikhail Margelov said.
- JULY 18, 2005EgyptDEATH PENALTY
LIBYA. 4 EGYPTIANS EXECUTED
the Arab Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and Legal Council, an Egyptian human rights group, said that Libyan authorities had recently executed four Egyptians on criminal charges.
- JULY 18, 2005ChinaDEATH PENALTY
CHINA. DEATH SENTENCE FOR MAN WHO PLOTTED WIFE'S DEATH TO COLLECT INSURANCE
Yang Aiping, a man who took out accident and life insurance worth 530,000 yuan (64,000 dollars) for his wife, was sentenced to death for murder by a court in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
- JULY 17, 2005BulgariaDEATH PENALTY
BULGARIA. OUTGOING FOREIGN MINISTER CONDEMNS DEATH PENALTY
Bulgaria's stand is against death penalty, wherever in the world it is being implemented, Foreign Minster Solomon Passy said.